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Future EU Finances and Own Resources

That is totally unacceptable. It is absolutely right that the Court of Auditors should be satisfied about how public and European money is spent. I am sure that Ministers and their colleagues—not just in the Treasury, but in other Departments and those who represent the Foreign Office, such as my right hon. Friend the Minister for Europe—will ensure when they go to European meetings that they will continue to do what British Ministers from parties on both sides have done in the past, which is to do their best for Britain.